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Are you new to the world of web design? You can easily create a quality website if you have all the tools you need and take the time to learn a few things about web design. Keep reading for some useful web design tips.

Better Solution

You do not have to learn HTML or other languages to create a quality website. Learning these languages will give you more flexibility and allow you to create an original website. You can, however, get excellent results with site-building tools or templates if do not know enough about languages you can use to build websites. You can create a blog or design a very simple website with the site-building tools provided by your web hosting service to start developing your online presence while you still work on learning HTML or another language.

Design

Creating a very simple design is often a better solution. Your visitors might have a hard time navigating your content if you create a design that is too complex and not practical. Your design should be simple, professional and easy to navigate. Base your design on popular templates or try imitating similar quality designs you saw on other websites. Creating a simple and professional web design will convey a positive image of your website. >

Make sure you create a design that is up to date. You should do some research about current web design trends and try implementing them on your website. A web design that is not up to date will not convey a professional image of your brand. You should create a new design for your site every two or three years. Make small changes if you can easily update your design as new trends emerge. You can stay up to date with current web design trends by subscribing to some newsletters or blogs written by web design experts.

Design Trends

Hire a professional web designer if you cannot create the kind of design you want with the tools available to you. Talk to different web designer and ask if you can see their portfolios. Look for a professional who has a few designs similar to what you want in their portfolio. You should be as specific as possible about what you want and give some feedback to your web designer. Agree on payment and on a deadline before you hire a web designer.

Experts

Create a design that will not get in the way of your search engine optimization campaign. Your design should be simple, error free and properly optimized. Use strong keywords to describe elements that cannot easily be interpreted, including JavaScript and Flash elements. Using an image as your background or your header is not a good option since search engine spiders will not be able to interpret your pages properly. Test your links and run your pages through the W3C websites to make sure there are no errors in your code.

Learning Html

These tips will help you create an excellent design for your website. Take the time to acquire more web design skills so you can create a professional website that is easy to navigate.

Web Design/coding, What Should I Start With, And Any Tips? HTML5? CSS? Javascript? I’m pretty decent at Photoshop and want to give web design a go. I am pretty familiar with basic coding in C++ and figured that I would enjoy web design. What should I take the time to learn? Any useful websites that any of you guys know of? Any book suggestions?

Start out with HTML5, because that’s what the structure of a web page is made of. After you’ve gotten the structure down, learn CSS. Usually at this point, if you already have some sort of wireframe of your web design in Photoshop, you would integrate it with your CSS so that what you drew up actually gets coded. Finally, you can learn Javascript if you want your site to have a bit more fancy functionality (though it’s by no means necessary unless you want to do something complicated).

The last two sites look the same so it may be a template, but that’s besides the point. I would like to understand why the prices change so often and which one you think is the best site to buy from in terms of what you get.

Amateur Needs Help On Internet Domain Transfer(s)? I am buying a series of Internet Domains from a friend-am a neubie to most of it. I know how to publish to sites, basic web design. But am at a loss on how I go about taking ownership of sites previously owned by another entity. Also , previous owner has some trivial money making links, such as googleads and want me to take ownership of those as well and THIS is where I am clueless as how to aquire these. Any sites or resources out there that have an “Idioits Guide” available for this or even just some good advise by someone who has done this. Any Tips, greatly appreciated

I Bought A Domain And Now Need To Create A Website.? Is there any way i can make my own website.Hiring a web designer is very expensive….. so i was wondering if there is another option.BTW,i have no knowledge of web designing. Thank you for your time ?

I Bought A Domain And Now Need To Create A Website.? Is there any way i can make my own website.Hiring a web designer is very expensive….. so i was wondering if there is another option.BTW,i have no knowledge of web designing. Thank you for your time ?

How Is Web Hosting At Godaddy Supposed To Work? I’ve uploaded an html file to the ‘html’ directory in my hosting account but whenever I try to call the web page in my browser I get a “file not found” error. What do I have to do to get the host to load my html file when my domain is called? Am I missing something here? I’m using DreamWeaver to upload the files. I don’t get this at all and GoDaddy ‘help’ section is not very helpful at all. I’m eager to get my site up and running, can someone give me a hand please? This should be a simple thing but it’s not.
Thanks, I registered the domain name about a week ago and GoDaddy said they’d handle the DNS changes but I’ll check anyway…anyone else?
OMG David and Ron thank you so much. As it turns out you were both correct.

David, while GoDaddy said they would change the DNS info they didn’t. Now, this may be my fault since, um, well I forgot to turn off domain forwarding from sedo.com. So after I did that I went into my email from GoDaddy and got the correct DNS settings. I then changed the manually. Then Ron, I changed my test html file to index.html and it worked like a charm.

Check in your Control Panel and make sure the nameservers have been set. They are normally already set when you buy the hosting for your domain name. It only takes UP TO 48 hours to propagate out to the servers so you should be seeing your home page called index.html.

If you did not name it index.html, it will not show unless you put the entire URL in the browser’s address field. The server automatically serves up the index.html file. Any other file with different name would have to have an .htaccess rewrite to get it to work as a “home page”.

What Is The Best Site To Get A Domain And WebHosting? I don’t want a site that won’t give me full ownership of the domain….. I’m not after a free deal and I kinda want a webhosting that offers a high bandwith and disk space……………. Thanks a lot

Listed below are some useful and rather important tips for designing a professional and high quality web site:

* Neat and Easy Navigation: Navigation of links on your site plays a big role in determining the stickiness of your site (how long your visitor stays and explores your site). Ask yourself this, What do visitors do as soon as they open your site? They would probably read the content of the present page and then look around to find any other page that interests them.

* Clean Layout Design: A clean layout that uses a lot of white space enhances a site’s looks. Try to keep the focus on your content, use a template for this. Use fonts that will be available on all computers to prevent your site looking messed up.

* Optimum Load Time: Make sure your load time is low. For this you must:
– Minimize Graphics, Flash and scripts: They hugely increase your file size.
-Optimize your HTML & script code: Make sure that your site doesn’t have any unwanted tags or unused scripts.
-Use Server Side Include (SSI) files where ever possible. SSI files once called from the web server reside in its cache so on subsequent requests they load faster.

* Design for all Screen Resolutions: A site that is easy-to-use always encourages visitors to stay and read your content. For site with long pages of content this is very crucial as the amount of scrolling required is reduced. Suppose your site doesn’t look good for a particular resolution it is very probable that the visitor will close the browser window feeling that the web page is not for their viewing. Designing stretch layouts that fit any screen resolution ensures that you know all your visitors see a visually appealing and professional site.

* Ensure Web site scalability: Make sure your code and design is scalable. As technology advances and configuration of computers & their monitors keep increasing and varying it is impossible to test your site in all screen sizes and platforms.

How To Register My Web Site…? I have static IP from my ISP. I have installed my own web server in my office and connected to the Internet. Now I want to name my web site xyz.in is it necessary to register the name with some Domain service provider even if I dont want to host my web site on their server? What is the process?

How Do I Set Up A Web Page? I have written some html files for my school project and registered a free “dns hostname” (i don’t know what it means :)) under oo.lv.
Once, when i had a forum on invisionfree, i managed to get that address to direct to it, but now i don’t need a forum, but a web site.
So basically my question is if there is any place in the internet where i could upload my html (for free) and somehow get the address to direct there and how then ? ?

How Do I Build My Own Web Store? Hi I would like to create a web store but dont know how i would be ever so grateful if someone can give me some information ive checked out websites but they ask for payments i dont mind paying but is says you cant name the website does anyone know where i can build one myself

What Is A Good Web Design/developer Site To Join And Ask Questions In Forums And Also..? Basically I need to remake my entire webpage. I am graphic designer looking for new work. This is something I need to do. I was wondering if there was any good sites I could discuss this in within a forum. also, if anyone has good pointers let me know! I am a little confused about making cross platform pages for iphone desktop tablet etc. do i need to build 3 different web pages? anyway if you guys cant help me out with that just a good website to discuss this type of stuff would be great! Thanks in advance
-Tony

If you are familiar with ThemeForest, they have a forum filled with talented web designers and developers. Those creative people are always open to answer question related to the field. That might help you. Just register an account and post your question to the forum.

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